Tag: ancient shipping

• By road and by sea: the fastest way from Rome to anywhere in the Roman Empire

  

  By road alone Carthage was 210 days’ walk from Rome. With a ship it was 6. I added the sea to my map of Roman roads, with sailing speeds from ancient voyages and the summer etesian winds.

  Tristan Hotham

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  ancient shipping, data visualisation, history, Itiner-e, maps, Roman Empire, Roman roads, travel time